#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…
you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—
In the morning Dee Dee drove me to the Sunset Strip for breakfast. The Mercedes was black and shone in the sun. We drove past the billboards and the nightclubs and the fancy restaurants...
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car